Govs Demand Constitutional Safeguards for State Police
Chuks Okocha in Abuja
At their meetings that ended early Thursday morning, the 36 States’ governors state governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, unanimously threw their support behind the immediate establishment of state police.
The governors also stated that such a structure should be constitutionally guaranteed and aligned with federalism and citizens’ rights.
Rising from its meeting in Abuja from Wednesday to early Thursday, the governors, in a communiqué signed by NGF Chairman and Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, and the state executives, disclosed that they received a presentation from the Forum’s secretariat and a delegation of the Honourable Attorneys-General of the States on efforts to support establishing state police.
